Re: Help an English lit noob out - need some good fiction
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Dostoevsky is excellent, top-shelf reading. He writes about human psychology and spirituality, politics sometimes, and talks about what the people are like in 19th century Russia. That last part's probably not that important, but most of his books take place around there, because that's where he's from. Exceptional writing, lucid and insightful
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Start with "The Gambler", just to be topical. It's a good short story on roulette. I don't really like books that're older than about 50 years old as the English has too many differences to the English I read today. I don't know if I like Dostoyevsky because his books were translated into a style I can still read, but it works for me whatever...
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